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Rating: 8/10 (26 April 2004)

Wasn't expecting such a powerful film from people I was not at all familiar with. OK, the quibbles and plot holes first: True enough for those who say "where are all the cars?" I would add "Where are all the corpses?" When Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens at the hospital, there should probably have been enough corpses there to clue him in that really bad stuff was going on. And all that death in a city the size of London would likely stink fifty miles away, from masses of rotting food, etc., as well as the dead. Clearly the reason for these omissions was to prolong the character's state of confusion. (And to pay a bit of homage to "The Omega Man") And it is never explained why the infected do not attack one another. And there was something weird about the photography that was quite irritating. But, having said all that, not many movies leave me thinking about them three days later, like this one did. Anyone who likes sci-fi, horror, or disaster flicks has to see 28DL. Grade: A-